Saturday, August 5, 2017

Dragon Ball Super Ep. 102: Magical Girls Pose for Justice!



Magical girls fight for justice! But not before they finish their poses!

Fighters are starting to decrease and as Goku searches yet again for Jiren three girls from Universe two calls out to the remaining warriors. Brianne de Cateau and her friends Sanka Ku and Su Roas transform Sailor moon style, though rather than pretty warriors they turn into…. nothing as Seventeen blast them before they can do it. Goku and Toppo then lecture him on in interrupting their transformation and they girls are allowed to continue. Sanka and Su look like something from an actual magical girls show. While Brianne looks like… a pink marsh mellow.  

Brianne releases a magic pheromone that bewitches fighters; however Universe Seven is hardly affected, even Roshi, thanks to his training has resisted their charms. Vegeta challenges Brianne in his super sayian form, but she holds her own. Indeed, Vegeta seems to show his weakness for gag characters.

In the meantime Roas is fighting Goku who seems to be having no real problem with her until her ki balls start changing direction. Su and Seventeen also fight. She uses cat like attacks, biting and scratching furthermore her speed is incredible and forces Seventeen on the defensive…. until he lets her slam into his barrier technique. But despite his attack another member of Universe 2’s team; Vikal intercepts her before she can fall out of the ring. Seventeen isn’t through yet. First he knocks out Vikal, and then goes for Su again. He blasts Su out of the ring. This has left Brianne pissed.

Yes! This was the episode I wanted, a bit heavy on exposition, but it had that over the top Toriyama style humor that so many western fans hate but I love. Despite that It still was about the fighting, and the fight between Seventeen and Su, while not very surprising was entertaining.

The only real downside was all the exposition which the episode totally didn’t need, except many as padding.  This has been a weakness in several episodes this arc, but it really stood out here because the rest of the material was so entertaining. The padding is a lazy way to get the episode to its run time, and really has little business in a series like Dragon ball which should have the budget for real content.

Still, I got most of what I wanted from this episode: a ridiculous parody for magical girls in Dragon ball and for that I am grateful.

Next time Gohan goes against universe ten. Let’s hope they do him justice after all this buildup.

-Gedaemon



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